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Mageia: MGASA-2021-0379 Critical: Transfig Out Of Bounds Attack

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Calendar Grey July 27, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia's latest security patch tackles integrity and availability vulnerabilities sparked by an out-of-bounds issue.
An Out of Bounds flaw was found fig2dev version 3.2.8a

Summary

An Out of Bounds flaw was found fig2dev version 3.2.8a. A flawed bounds check in read_objects() could allow an attacker to provide a crafted malicious input causing the application to either crash or in some cases cause memory corruption. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to integrity as well as system availability (CVE-2021-3561).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29126

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- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/C44WSY5KAQXC3Y2NMSVXXZS3M5U5U2E6/

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-3561

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Topics Covered

security advisory memory corruption out of bounds integrity issue mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/transfig-3.2.8a-1.mga8

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Publication date: 27 Jul 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0379.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-3561

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Topics Covered

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